Gabrielle

“The statesman hates the writer because the writer sows the seeds of dissent. What the statesman dreams of is to be able to prevent people from thinking; and thus he always accuses the artists and writers of upsetting his orderly state.5”
― Eric Berkowitz, Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News

“family just starting out is sometimes like that: a nebula of self-centeredness in danger of imploding.”
― Paolo Giordano, Like Family

“A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“You don’t have to be the woman anyone else wants you to be or tells you you should be to make them more comfortable in their own existence.”
― V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra